The finest anime film I've ever seen.

| Original Score: A | May 4, 2005

Millennium Actress has more layers to it than the proverbial onion, but Kon's sure hand keeps things moving right along.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 27, 2003

Given its complex array of fact, fiction, location, character and atmosphere, Millennium Actress is almost unimaginable in any other medium.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 17, 2003

This somewhat surreal anim import is unlikely to earn the same mainstream recognition as last year's Spirited Away, but it's certainly worth a look.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 3, 2003

Lack of ambition is not one of the movie's problems.

Full Review | Oct 3, 2003

Anime has never been my cup of oolong. Or it wasn't until Satoshi Kon's bold, time-traveling sophomore feature, Millennium Actress.

| Original Score: B+ | Oct 2, 2003

Disguises itself as a romance, but it's really a loving homage to Japanese history, as well as a comment on the nature of filmmaking and films.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 12, 2003

It is a lovely Valentine to the golden age of Japanese filmmaking and an era of gentler, deeper feelings.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 12, 2003

The animation in Millennium Actress ... and Chiyoko's wistful suffering is made achingly real.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 12, 2003

Frequently a stone bore.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 12, 2003

The movie's narrative can be taxingly ornate, but there's something beautiful about its metaphorical conflation of politics and glamour, the real and the fictional.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 12, 2003

To watch Millennium Actress' is to witness one cinematic medium celebrating another, an expression of movie love that is wonderfully eccentric and deeply affecting.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 11, 2003

As a piece of visual legerdemain as well as a rumination on the place movies have in our personal and collective subconscious, Millennium Actress fascinatingly goes where films have not often gone before.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 11, 2003

Millennium Actress is a visual feast, but also a mental gymnastics routine.

Full Review | Sep 11, 2003

A complex narrative strategy is muddied by emotionally stunted characters in this ambitious and visually sophisticated Japanese anime.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 11, 2003

It's animated, but it's human and will touch the soul of anyone who has loved deeply.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Sep 11, 2003

Behold Millennium Actress, Satoshi Kon's anime answer to Mulholland Drive.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Sep 4, 2003

A stylish if somewhat disjointed film.

Full Review | Nov 20, 2002